Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc. He is coauthor of the popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, which covers applying XP to J2EE development, and also recently co-authored Professional Struts. He has been working with J2EE since the very early days and lately has been working mostly with Maven, Spring, JSF and Hibernate. Rick is a big JSF and Spring fan. Rick has taught several workshops and training courses involving the Spring framework as well as worked on several projects consulting, mentoring and developing with the Spring framework. He blogs at http://jroller.com/page/RickHigh.
"JSF Good!" Says Rick Hightower
If you have not looked into Spring yet, it is time. Here is why you should!
Grady Booch once said that the great thing about objects is that they can be
replaced. The great thing about Spring is it helps you replace them. With
Spring, you simply inject collaborating objects called dependencies using
JavaBeans properties and configuration files. Then it's easy enough to switch
out collaborating objects when you need to. Spring allows you to dynamically
add services to objects called aspects. This is similar to the Decorator
Design pattern, but does n... (more)
Back before Java became popular, I was a C++ bigot. I programmed in nothing
but C++. I lived, ate and breathed C++. If it wasn't C++, it was rubbish. I
thought C++ was the alpha and omega of object-oriented programming. I had
"operator overloading" for breakfast, "templates" for lunch and "multiple
inheritance" for dinner, and I always went back for seconds.
Then a funny thing happened. I... (more)
Time is a brutal enemy of youth and exuberance. Time makes cynics of us all.
Time is the universal truth serum that reveals all authenticity. Time will
tell, but the announcement at JavaOne 2006 by Google may change the face of
AJAX development; strike that, Google's announcement may change Web
development forevermore.
This cynic heard an announcement at JavaOne that changed his viewpoint... (more)
The past three articles in this series have highlighted the strengths of
scripting languages. They're interactive and dynamic, and allow you to
experiment, debug and prototype solutions quickly. However, the most common
response when I speak to die-hard Java fanatics is, "Yeah, but I'll have to
learn another language and I already know Java" (I consider myself a die-hard
Java fanatic to ... (more)
Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc. He is coauthor of the popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, which covers applying XP to J2EE development, and also recently co-authored Professional Struts. He has been working with J2EE since the very early days and lately has been working mostly with Maven, Spring, JSF and Hibernate. Rick is a big JSF and Spring fan. Rick has taught several workshops and training courses involving the Spring framework as well as worked on several projects consulting, mentoring and developing with the Spring framework. He blogs at http://jroller.com/page/RickHigh.
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